Immigration Act is amended to allow government to exclude or restrict non-British immigrants for economic, industrial or racial reasons. Big Brother movement is launched to assist British adolescents to come to Australia as farm workers. Australian Aborigines’ Progressive Association is formed
Empire Land Settlement scheme begins under which British Government assists immigrants to come to Australia, particularly to go onto the land.
There is a sharp rise in immigration, particularly from Italy, due to USA restricting immigration from southern and eastern Europe. League of Nations appoints High Commissioner for Refugees.
People from Britain and Ireland as well as those from northern Europe are encouraged to migrate during the 1920s. Controls on entry of some southern and eastern Europeans are introduced. Quota is placed on people from Malta, Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland,
At the Versailles Conference, Prime Minister W.M. Hughes upholds the White Australia Policy against the racial equality clause proposed by Japan. Migration scheme for British ex-servicemen begins. First Armenian church is established in Melbourne.
South Australia Nomenclature Act changes place names of German origin.
New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board is empowered to remove and apprentice Aboriginal children without a court hearing. This power is repealed in 1940, when the Board is renamed the Aborigines Welfare Board. Similar policies allowing the removal of Aboriginal
World War 1. Outbreak of war halts immigration. The war ends in 1918. Commonwealth War Precautions Act is passed, banning German immigration to Australia and enabling the internment of ‘enemy aliens’, mostly Germans, living in Australia. 4,000 residents of German background
Kingsley Fairbridge establishes the Child Emigration Society in England and a farm school in Western Australia for orphaned and underprivileged child migrants.
South Australian Aborigines Act makes the Chief Protector the legal guardian of every Aboriginal and ‘half-caste’ child under 21 with control over the child’s place of residence. The Chief Protector is replaced by the Aborigines Protection Board in 1939 and guardianship power